Machine for producing fur-resembling materials.



, G. RIEDEL.

MACHINE FOR PRODUCING FUR RESEMBLING MATERIALS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. 1909. 1,034,836, 7 Patented Aug. 6,1912.

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G. RIEDBL. MACHINE FOR PRODUCING FUR RESEMBLING MATERIALS. APPLICATION TILED APILB. 1909. 1,034,836. Patented Aug. 6,1912.

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GEORGE RIEDEL, 0F GLOGAU, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR PRODUCING FUR-RESEMBLING MATERIALS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1909.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

Serial No. 488,731.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE RmonL, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Glogau, Vorstadt, Germany, have invented a Machine for Producing FuivResembling Materials, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is a novel machine for producing artificial fur fabrics by thoroughly combining the woven materials With animal hair by a treatment with reciprocatory pressing rollers and damp heat so that a thorough union of the hair and material is produced.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, Fig. 2 is a plan Fig. 3 is a fragmental longitudinal sectional View on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 is a similar transverse sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the standards A are shown supporting a pair of guides B provided with supporting rollers g. Upon these rollers g is slidably mounted the lower frame a, which normally supports the upper frame n Across each of said frames is stretched a piece of linen 7" between which is placed the cloth 0 and the hair f to be united. Sprocket wheels t are rotatably mounted at opposite ends of the machine, while a drive-sprocket t under the machine is mounted on the drive-shaft t carrying the fastlooseand reverse-pulleys t Over these sprocket-wheels is passed the chain 16* secured to the lower frame a. By means of suitable belts engaging the pulleys t the frames at a may be moved forward and backward on the tracks B.

In the middle of the machine, under the frames 11. n is the damping chamber or box (5 the upper part of which consists of a perforated brass plate 03 over which the linen r glides. A pipe d conducts steam into this chamber.

Above the ieces of linen r are two rubber covered WOOC en rollers it having end spindles journaled in the supporting bars a pivotally carried on the bracket a. The horizontal lower end of the bracket is secured to the beam 22 reciprocated by the revolving eccentric o and slides in a shoe 0 supported on one arm of the bell-crank lever 6 the other arm of the bell-crank lever being connected by the link 6 to the hand lever 6 By drawing back the hand lever e the shoe 6 is raised causing the rollers h to be raised about forty centimeters above the frames a n to permit the moving of the frame to the end of the guides B so that said frames may be opened apart for the insertion or removal of the material operated upon.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The material, the woolen cheviot for instance, which is to be given the character of fur, is placed on the raw hair of a rabbit or other animal and the same placed between the layers of linen 1' and moved under the rollers h. The frames n n are then carried backward and forward interruptedly for any desired length of time, at the same time the rollers it being rapidly driven backward and forward press against the linen r and indirectly on the material and hair therebetween. lVhile this is going on the steam passes through the perforated plat-e d and penetrates the various layers of cloth and hair. This operation causes the combination between the cloth and hair. The pressure of the rollers it may be varied by adjusting the hand lever e.

The size of the material treated is limited only by the size of the frames n n which may be of any desired suitable dimensions.

I claim as new:

1. In a machine for producing fur-resembling materials, the combination of a movable frame having upper and lower cloths spaced from each other and adapted to receive the material to be felted and the fur therebetween, a movable pressing means acting on one of the cloths, and a stationary moistening device supporting the lower cloth and adapted to receive steam under pressure whereby the fur is blown into the material to be felted.

2. In a machine for producing fur-resembling materials, the combination of an upper and a lower spaced pervious cloth adapted to retain therebetween an upper layer of woven fabric to be felted and a lower layer of hair, and a stationary perforated damping box below the lower pervious cloth and adapted to receive steam under pressure whereby the fur is blown into the material to be felted.

3. In a machine for producin fur-resembling material, a pair of longitudinal guides, a pair of superposed frames movable in said guides, linen coverings for said frames, adapted to receive between them fur and the material to be felted, sprocket wheels on said guides, a chain passed over said wheels and secured to one of the frames, means for driving one of the sprocket Wheels, a pair of to be felted, and a pipe for conducting steam 1o rollers movable over the upper of said linen to the damping box.

coverings, means for raising and lowering In testimony whereof I have hereunto set said rollers, means for longitudinally recipmy hand in the presence of two subscribing rocating said rollers, a damping box having witnesses.

a perforated top under the lower of said GEORGE RIEDEL. linen coverings, said damping box being Witnesses:

adapted to receive steam under pressure HENRY HAsPEn,

whereby the fur is blown into the material l/VOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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